My MacOS X

I could say -  I always write code that’s valid and “Apply Source Formatting” as Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 does it , but the truth is I’m a hack.
I get things to work with spit and chewing gum, and my code is a sloppy mess. Tidy Service to the rescue!

Tidy Service is a OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy library originally created by  Dave Raggett. The version of HTML Tidy used in this build corresponds to the binary version released on February 11th, 2007.

HOW DO INSTALL IT?

1. Download Tidy Service
2. Copy TidyService.service file to /Users/<your home directory>/Library/Services/
   Note: You may need to create the directory “Services” if it does not already exist.
3. Logout and then login  again (or restart systyem).
   Note: Tidy Sevice will not appear in the Services menu until you logout, then login
4. Create settings for TidyService.
   create /Users/<your home directory>/TidyService.conf
   and insert following settings to TidyService.conf

   indent: yes
   indent-spaces: 4
   wrap: 72
   markup: yes
   output-xml: no
   input-xml: no
   show-warnings: no
   numeric-entities: no
   quote-marks: yes
   quote-nbsp: yes
   quote-ampersand: no
   break-before-br: no
   uppercase-tags: no
   uppercase-attributes: no
   doctype: omit
   show-body-only: yes
   output-html: yes
   tidy-mark: no
   

   A detailed listing of options can be found at http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html

5. Set a shortcut to easy access to Tidy Service. Open Leopard -> System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Select Services in left box and set find “Tidy Markup” in list.
   

HOW TO USE

Tidy Service can be used to clean up HTML markup in any application that supports services by selecting (Coda, SubEthaEdit, Tumult HyperEdit, or TextWrangler) the markup in question and choosing one of the Tidy menu items from the Services menu.

Currently, there are two processing options: Tidy Markup and Tidy to XHTML. Tidy to XHTML instructs the Tidy engine to  generate valid XHTML, while Tidy Markup does not.

tags: Development, HTML, Text Editor

Snow Leopard’s Terminal has a new very useful feature “SPLIT” / “COLLAPSE” as in many text editors. Check out the split/collapse window buttons here above the scroll bar:

Click the top “split” button or press Command+D shortcut and now you’ve got your window split into two usable panes like so:
To collapse the window press Command+Shift+D

ALso, you can do multiple splits. Aside from general speed increase I think split pane in Terminal is my new favorite feature.

See the Terminal Splits Windows Movie:

tags: short keys, Snow Leopard, Terminal, Text Editor

About Coda

Apple Design Awards 2007 winner! So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, adjusting SQL in a Terminal, using a CSS editor and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we declared. “And much cooler.”

Coda is a unique web development environment that offers a complete file browser (both locally and remotely), publishing, full-featured text editor, WebKit-based preview, CSS editor with visual tools, full-featured terminal, built-in reference material, and much more. Coda is the Mac’s first one-window Web development application that integrates numerous modules into   one cohesive user experience.

All of the usual languages are supported and styled appropriately including:
CSS, HTML, Javascript, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML, and straight text.

I do web development pretty much every day and have never been a real fan of the all inclusive, live editing types of tools. Honestly tools like Dreamweaver really makes me cringe. So like many others I normally have a separate application for text editing, FTP, shell, and of course a few browsers open. I have to tell you, I’ve taken the red pill now and doing away with all of these separate tools actually seems possible with Coda.

The software is $99 but you do have a trial period to test it out and see if you like it. The staff at Panic appear to be interested in ideas to improve the software further so if you have any suggestions its worth dropping them an email.

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later (include Snow Leopard). Official website to download it panic.com
See the Coda text editor in actions:

tags: HTML, PHP, programming, Text Editor

Panic Inc. creates some of the best Mac software on the market. From Coda to Transmit to CandyBar, Panic’s software simply works. One of the great things about two of their most popular applications, Transmit and Coda, is that they function very well together. Coda’s FTP functionality is built on Transmit’s, and, because of this, Panic has made it easy to import one’s Favorites from Transmit into Coda.

To import Favorites from Transmit to Coda:
1.  Launch Coda,
2. Select “Sites” from the menu bar,
3. Choose “Import Transmit Favorites….”

As long as your copy of Transmit is registered, this feature should work.

tags: HTML, PHP, Text Editor